Nutrition & Life-Style changes
Osteoarthritis symptoms can be influenced by nutrition and every-day diet choices. This will help to facilitate a long-term commitment to modifying one’s eating habits. Add in daily regimen of physical activity and maintain an active lifestyle, so OA symptoms can be alleviated.
Eating healthy food fills your body with energy and nutritients. Imagine your cells smiling back at you and saying ‘Thank You’
Karen Salmansohn
Healthy eating is a life-style choice. It is so important to establish routines that are simple, realistically, and ultimately livable…
Nutrition and your every day diet can have both positive and negative effects on arthritis symptoms.
Studies indicate that a Mediterranean diet can reduce inflammation in individuals with osteoarthritis, as well as prevent weight gain, fracture risk, and disability.
The diet emphasizes locally grown fruits and vegetables, healthful fats such as olive oil and nuts, whole grains and fish, yogurt, and a glass of wine on occasion.
People in Greece and southern Italy have consumed a Mediterranean diet for centuries, and it is credited with their longevity and low rates of chronic diseases such as osteoarthritis, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and dementia.
Along with a Mediterranean diet, it is essential to maintain a lifestyle transformation, as well engaging in daily physical activity.